Combination-undergarment.



E. T. HAYWARD.

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To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIZABETH T. HAY- WARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at 535 Clara avenue, St. Louis, Missouri, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Combination-Undergarments, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, such. as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being bad to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to new and useful improvements in combination undergarments, and has special references to a union garment combining in a single article a corset cover, a pair of drawers, and a short skirt member which latter is a part of the drawers.

The principal objects of my invention are to construct a combination undergarment from a comparatively small number of pattern pieces in order to materially reduce the time, labor, and consequent expense of sewing the parts of the garment together and further to materially reduce the waste in cutting the pattern pieces from sections of cloth.

Further objects of my invention are to produce a neat and practical combination undergarment that is applied to the body of the wearer in one operation and which when applied fits smoothly without fullness around the waist or over the hips in order to be particularly adapted for use in connection with tight fitting gowns and dresses.

A. particular object of my invention is to form with the drawers portion of the garment, a short skirt like member, which hangs from the rea r portion of the waist of the wearer, and which skirt like portion takes the place of a separate short underskirt usually worn over the drawers.

A still further object of my invention is to provide a combination undergarment that can be easily and cheaply manufactured and which can be readily laundried.

With the above and other objects in view, my invention consists in the novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described, claimed and shown in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure l is a perspective view of a" combination undergarment of my improved construction and showing the front; thereof.

Specification of Letters Patent.

UNITED STATES PATENT O FFIG E.

COMBINATION -UNDERGARMENT.

Patented Feb. 10, 1914.

Application filed June 26, 1912. I Serial No. 705,957.

Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the garment and showing the rear portion thereof. Fig. 3 1s an elevational View showing the garmentopen. Fig. 4 is a plan View in outline showing the pattern piece of which the drawers are formed. Fig. 5 is a plan view in outline showing one of the duplicate pieces of which the corset cover portion of the garment is formed.

In the embodiment of my invention as illustrated, ll designates the sections of material which, when properly united form the corset cover portion of the garment. These sections are cut from fabric with the warp threads running at right angles to the front edge 2 of each section. Thus, the weft threads lie parallel with the front edge 2. The rear edges 3 of the section 1 are out on the bias or at an angle relative to the warp and weft thread of the material, and these edges are united in any suitable manner preferably by rows of stitching 4, thereby forming a seam which when the garment is positioned on the wearer occupies a vertical position on the back.

The upper edges 5 and 6 of each section are curved vertically upward toward a common point, and formed in the material below these upperly curved edges is an opening 7 which forms the arm hole of the garment. The edges 5 and 6, which depend from the upper edge of the corset cover together with the edge of the arm hole opening 7 may be trimmed in any desired manner, and at tached to the outer upper corners of the sections 1 at the points where theedges 2 and 5 meet are tapes or ribbons 8 which form ties for uniting the upper corners of the corset cover on the front of the wearer.

A narrow strip 2* of each section 1, imme diately adjacent the edge 2, is folded over unto the body of the goods and attached thereto, thus forming a reinforcing or double edge on each end of the corset cover portion of the garment, and formed in one of these reinforcing edges is a series of button holes 9 adapted to receive buttons 10 carried by the opposite edge strip when the front edges of the corset cover are united.

1'1 designates the pattern piece or section from which the drawers and skirt portion of the garment are formed, which section is cut from a single piece of suitable fabric, and where the fabric is provided with selvage, the same forms the lower edge of the skirt portion of the garment as designated by 11 A semi-elliptic opening or cutaway portion 12 is formed in the center of the upper portion of the section 11 and the edge 12 of this opening passes around the waist of the wearer, said edge being bound or trimmed as desired and connected directly to the lower edge of the corset cover portion of the garment in any suitable manner.

The four corners of the pattern piece or section 11 are cut away so as to form a pair of curved edges 13, and these corresponding edges are united to form and the seams, resulting from joining of these edges extended vertically on the insides of the leg portions of the drawers.

The upper edges 15 of the section 11 between the cut away corners, form the lower edges of the drawers legs, and said edges may be trimmed as desired. The central portion of the section 11 or that portion be tween the drawers legs, and below the waist opening 12, forms the skirt portion of the garment, and when the garment is in position upon the wearer this skirt portion depends from the rear portion of the waist line of said wearer and folds overthe rear portions of the drawers legs. If desired, tapes or ribbons 16 may be attached to th ends of the waist band between the drawers and corset cover in order to form ties for drawing up the waist band when the garment is worn.

By cutting the section 11 so that the selvage of the goods extends along the lower edge of the skirt portion, it will be unnecessary to trim the lower edge of said skirt portion, although the trimming can be added if desired.

From the foregoing description, it will be readily seen that I have produced a simple combination undergarment, combining practically three separate garments, namely, drawers, corset cover and short skirt which garment can be easily and cheaply manufactured for the reason that comparatively little time and labor is required in cutting and assembling the three sections of material from which the garment is formed and said garment when worn fits'smoothly, presents a neat and finished appearance, and is particularly adapted to be worn with comparatively tight fitting gowns or dresses.

The skirt portion of the garment hangs freely from the rear portion of the waist band and in no wise interferes with the free movements of the wearer. By forming the corset cover sections with the rear or back edges on the bias or at an angle with respect to the warp threads of the goods, all fullness of the corset cover when applied to the the drawers legs sections are alike in size and shape. sued, the depending sk rt. portion may be insides of the drawers legs of the completed} body of tie wearer is avoided and a col tortable easily fitting garment is producer It will be observed that the garment as whole, is open at the front from top to bottom, and this construction facilitates the putting on or taking off of the garment, besides permitting the garmentto be laid out flat when ironed- The entire combination garment is formed without darts, and without inserts, and the single seam required to unitethe two parts of the corset cover is at the middle of the back of the garment, and but two seams are required in the formation of the drawers, said seams being on the inside of the leg portion of said drawers.

In cutting the section that forms the drawers, the goods from which the section is out can be folded so as to form two layers, and the pattern from which the drawers are cut is laid on the goods with one edge along the folded edge of said goods, and thus the two layers of the goods are cutat the same time and, therefore, the two halves of the If delengthened by adding a deep tiounce along the lower edge of said skirt portion.

. Various changesin the form, proportion, and minor details of construction may be resorted to without departing from thespirit of my invention, the scope of which is set forth on the appended claim. 7 p

I claim:

In a combination undergarment of the class described, the combination with a waist member, of a pair of drawers formed from a single continuous section of material having a selvage and cut so that said selvage is directly opposite the waist line of the drawers, there being a semi-elliptic opening formed in the center of the edge of the secv tion of material opposite the selvage to form the waist opening, the corners of said sec tion of material being cut away, the edges adjacent to the cut-away portions being connected by seamsto formthedrawers legs, 5 q which seams occupy vertical positionson the w garment, and the material from which the drawers are formed between the legs SEC-L tions and the waisttline depends from said waist line to form a short skirt section.

In testimony whereof I hereunto aflix my 1 15 signature in the presence of two. witnesses,

this 21st day of June, 1912.

ELIZABETH T. HAYlVARD \Vitnesses J AMES HAYWARD, M. P. SMITH.

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